Purdue University
School of Civil Engineering
CE 512 The Comprehensive Urban Planning Process
Fri. 24 January 2020
Class on Data for Planning
Class Objectives:
By the end of class, the student will be able to ...
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List sources of data suitable for planning applications.
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Discuss the relationships between available data, available models, and
the objectives of the analysis being performed.
Preparation for Class:
Review SNotes Section 1.
Theme Music:
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Days Are Numbers (The Traveller),
by The Alan Parsons Project, 1984, 4:52
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Information,
by Eliot Sumner, 2014, 7:10.
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867-5309 (Jenny),
by Tommy Tutone, 1981, 3:45
Outline of Likely Topics
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Standard data sources
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Example: Income distribution
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Land use analysis using Alonso's bid-rent theory
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Most central sites are the most attractive.
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Central sites are scarce.
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Different land users place different utility values on these sites.
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Utility of location with respect to center of region declines in accordance with land use.
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Locational equilibrium => concentric cones or rings;
land uses with steeper-slope bid-rent curves are closer to CBD.
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Urban analysis using Bid-Rent Curves (BRCs)
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Exercises in small groups
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Data sources
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(Mis)interpreting data
